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..These issues are not unique to therapeutic hypothermia. They include the extrapolation of evidence from trials to clinical care, as well as the impact of hypothermia on prognosis and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment...

How much weight should we give to parental interests in decisions about life support for newborn infants?

Dominic WilkinsonThe Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, The University of OxfordMonash Bioeth Rev 20:13.1-25. 2010

..In some situations parents' welfare interests outweigh those of the infant. However, I argue that this would not justify treatment limitation except in the setting of severe impairment...

..To minimize the effects of SFPs, it is essential to carefully collect and appraise evidence about prognosis. Doctors need to be honest with themselves and with patients and their families about uncertainty and the limits of knowledge...

The window of opportunity: decision theory and the timing of prognostic tests for newborn infants

..This may prompt further research into improving prognostic tests. But it may also prompt us to reconsider our current attitudes towards the palliative care of newborn infants predicted to be severely impaired...